Michael J. Fox recently delighted fans by posting a photo that showed him spending time with his “Back to the Future” co-star Christopher Lloyd. Now, Fox has followed that up with a pic of his reunion with Michael Douglas.
Taking to Instagram on Monday, March 9, Fox posted an image of the pair leaning toward each other as someone takes their photo. Dressed rather casually, the duo is sitting at a restaurant dining table. In the caption, Fox wrote, “Another Cali reunion. My American President.”
Fans will surely realize that Fox is referring to the fact that the pair starred together in 1995’s “The American President.” In the film directed and produced by the late Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin, Douglas played President Andrew Shepherd, a widower who finds himself in a relationship with lobbyist Sydney Ellen Wade (Annette Bening). Fox appeared in the movie as Lewis Rothschild, Senior Domestic Policy Advisor to the President.
Fans Love the Fox & Douglas Reunion
When Fox shared the Instagram post featuring a photo of himself with Douglas, fans left comments that made it clear that they loved the reunion.
One person wrote, “What a great rendezvous!!!😍🙌”
“My second fave movie (one is BTTF!) glad you’re having good visit 😍🙌,” another fan added.
A third follower said, “Hell yeah! Marty Mcfly and President Andrew Shepherd, NO WAY! Lol enjoy 🥘”
“A superb, extraordinary film… From the master Rob Reiner, with incredible acting talent,” came from another social media user.
Someone else left a comment, saying, “Two absolute legends !!!!!!🔥”
‘The American President’ Was ‘One of the Year’s Best Films’
“It is hard to make a good love story, harder to make a good comedy and harder still to make an intelligent film about politics,” the now-late Roger Ebert wrote in November 1995. “Rob Reiner’s ‘The American President’ cheerfully does all three, and is a great entertainment — one of those films, like ‘Forrest Gump or ‘Apollo 13,’ that however briefly unites the audience in a reprise of the American dream.”
Ebert also noted, “Surrounding Douglas and Bening is a superb supporting cast: Martin Sheen is the president’s right-hand man, Michael J. Fox is his ideological conscience, Anna Deavere Smith is his press secretary, David Paymer is a pollster. (His name, Kodak, suggests his snapshots of the national mood, just as Shepherd is an evocative name for a president.) Shawna Waldron plays the president’s pre-teen daughter, whose role is as intelligently written and played as everyone else’s.”
“Watching ‘The American President,’ I felt respect for the craft that went into it: the flawless re-creation of the physical world of the White House, the smart and accurate dialogue, the manipulation of the love story to tug our heartstrings,” Ebert added.
He went on to deem “[t]his is a great entertainment — one of the year’s best films.”
